Waverley magazine vol. 6 no. 10

POLYGAMY OF THE MORMONS.
WE published recently, for the information of the incredulous, an official information on Mormon po-lygamy, from Orson Pratt, a high priest of the Mor-mons, and commissioned by the prophet, Brigham Young, as the Missionary apostle of the Latter Day Saints, for the conversion of the heathen, at the city of Washington. Erom the Seer, a periodical pub-lished by Elder Pratt, in said city, we have some ad-ditional light thrown on the same subject. He says, "that Brigham Young, just now, is the only man on earth who holds the keys to minister the ceremony of marriage for time and for all eternity." He then proceeds to state, that notwithstanding a man's wife may be hostile to the introduction of another into the family, she must show good reasons for it to the Prophet, or her complaints will not pass muster. Of the various wives and children which may constitute a Mormon family, Elder Pratt says:
"There is no particular rule as regards the resi-dence of the different branches of a family. It is very frequently that they all reside in the same dwelling, and take hold unitedly and with the great-est cheerfulness, of the different branches of house-hold or domestic business, eating at the same table, and kindly looking after each other's welfare, while the greatest peace and harmony prevail year after year.—Their children play and associate together with the greatest affection, as brothers and sisters; while each mother apparently manifests as much kindness and tender regard for the children of the others as for her own."
Beautiful! beautiful! Nothing like it, even in the mysteries of Socialism:
"And morning and evening, when the husband calls together his family to worship the Lord, and call upon his name, they bow the knee, and, with the greatest union of feeling, offer their devotions to the Most High."
What a delightful state of things to be sure. A man with seven wives, and each the mother of half dozen children, all thus harmonizing, to the number of fifty, around the husband or father of the whole family, under the same roof. But it appears accord-ing to Elder Pratt, that—
"It is sometimes the case that the husband pro-vides for his wives separate habitations, as Jacob did for his four wives, each of whom had a separate tent. (See Genesis 31: 33.) Where all the wives are equally faithful, the husband generally endeavors to treat them without partiality."
How romantic. How patriarchal! How interest-ing and instructive, these plain and honest confes-sions of the marriage covenant of the Saints at the Salt Lake. But suppose a case. A saint has seven wives, each living in a different house. He "treats them all without partiality." But can any one of them answer how it is thus possible for him to be at home more than one night in the week ? Is not this also a mystery ?
Such the abominations of Mormonism, through the confessions of their delegated apostle to Washington. We trust that the government will not much longer tolerate these things. They are in open dsfiance of the laws and social institutions of the whole country—they are an outrage upon common decency—a monstrous outrage upon woman's rights to a husband of her own—and ought to be abolished before they lead to the disasters of civil war. We trust that General Pierce will not overlook the Mormons. They must conform to the laws. It is time they were taken in hand. New York Herald.

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POLYGAMY OF THE MORMONS.
WE published recently, for the information of the incredulous, an official information on Mormon po-lygamy, from Orson Pratt, a high priest of the Mor-mons, and commissioned by the prophet, Brigham Young, as the Missionary apostle of the Latter Day Saints, for the conversion of the heathen, at the city of Washington. Erom the Seer, a periodical pub-lished by Elder Pratt, in said city, we have some ad-ditional light thrown on the same subject. He says, "that Brigham Young, just now, is the only man on earth who holds the keys to minister the ceremony of marriage for time and for all eternity." He then proceeds to state, that notwithstanding a man's wife may be hostile to the introduction of another into the family, she must show good reasons for it to the Prophet, or her complaints will not pass muster. Of the various wives and children which may constitute a Mormon family, Elder Pratt says:
"There is no particular rule as regards the resi-dence of the different branches of a family. It is very frequently that they all reside in the same dwelling, and take hold unitedly and with the great-est cheerfulness, of the different branches of house-hold or domestic business, eating at the same table, and kindly looking after each other's welfare, while the greatest peace and harmony prevail year after year.—Their children play and associate together with the greatest affection, as brothers and sisters; while each mother apparently manifests as much kindness and tender regard for the children of the others as for her own."
Beautiful! beautiful! Nothing like it, even in the mysteries of Socialism:
"And morning and evening, when the husband calls together his family to worship the Lord, and call upon his name, they bow the knee, and, with the greatest union of feeling, offer their devotions to the Most High."
What a delightful state of things to be sure. A man with seven wives, and each the mother of half dozen children, all thus harmonizing, to the number of fifty, around the husband or father of the whole family, under the same roof. But it appears accord-ing to Elder Pratt, that—
"It is sometimes the case that the husband pro-vides for his wives separate habitations, as Jacob did for his four wives, each of whom had a separate tent. (See Genesis 31: 33.) Where all the wives are equally faithful, the husband generally endeavors to treat them without partiality."
How romantic. How patriarchal! How interest-ing and instructive, these plain and honest confes-sions of the marriage covenant of the Saints at the Salt Lake. But suppose a case. A saint has seven wives, each living in a different house. He "treats them all without partiality." But can any one of them answer how it is thus possible for him to be at home more than one night in the week ? Is not this also a mystery ?
Such the abominations of Mormonism, through the confessions of their delegated apostle to Washington. We trust that the government will not much longer tolerate these things. They are in open dsfiance of the laws and social institutions of the whole country—they are an outrage upon common decency—a monstrous outrage upon woman's rights to a husband of her own—and ought to be abolished before they lead to the disasters of civil war. We trust that General Pierce will not overlook the Mormons. They must conform to the laws. It is time they were taken in hand. New York Herald.